Friday.
Alan McArthur writes:
Looks like those illegal deer raves are back on in Phoenix Park…
Tag Archives: deer
Gavin Shapiro and composer Jason Doornick met this vocal deer in Nara Prefecture in Japan.
Blood curdling scream and convulsive giggling fit, yes. But first, the sound of air escaping from a balloon.
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O’Connell Street, Dublin this morning.
Actual deer or donkey with stuck-on antlers?
We may never know.
Thanks Maria Shannon
Update:
Leon writes:
It’s Scuffy the “reindeer’ with Amanda Scobie (left) and Sonia Kelly launching the programme of events for the Christmas season from DublinatChristmas.ie.an initiative by DublinTown, Dublin City Council, the Dublin Transport Companies, The Office of Public Works and city centre businesses.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
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Phoenix Park, Dublin this morning.
Sam writes:
“Fallow deer graze as the long grass which has been cut and bailed near the Papal Cross. Since the 1970s with the removal of hay these grasslands has been improving. Extensive open areas of grassland such as the ‘Fifteen Acres ‘ provide nesting sites for skylark. Grasslands which are remote from the main thoroughfares, are not cut and thus provide food and shelter for invertebrates and cover for small animals….”
Mmf.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
A fallow deer taken yesterday evening just before sunset.
She caused a lot of the rutting.
Previously: Still Rutting
Thanks Phil Dimashq
Rutting season continues in the Phoenix Park, Dublin this afternoon.
Thanks Eoin Kernan
Previously: Fighting Over Females
At Strawberry beds next to the Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Liam Phelan writes:
“So this happened about an hour ago. I think it is rutting season at the moment so maybe this poor guy was pushed out of the Phoenix Park by a bigger male.
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A herd of Sika deer chill on a busy road in Nara, Japan where they’re regarded as sacred by locals.
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John Lawlor writes:
Spotted last night in St Mary’s hospital in the Phoenix Park. I thought it was the storage facility for rooftop Christmas reindeer until they started to move.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55a6RyKWVoI
An orderly herd of deer line up to leap over a fence one by one. Then, around the 2.40 mark, a phenomenon described by the evolutionary biologist WD Hamilton as ‘escape panic’ occurs. It’s all about self-preservation.
Deer do it. Bats do it. We do it.
Also, what the hell did they see in there?
THE SCIENCE: What the hell is going on with these deer? (io9)